One of the things that bothered me for quite some time with my Pi-Hole was that using it with Google Wifi (first gen), it wouldn’t automatically detect device hostnames. I’d done a lot of googling and never could get it to work even after a lot of different trials with multiple settings. Eventually I gave […]
I was recently working on an issue that required me to dig through gigabytes of CSV files to look for patterns and data points. I had no intention of bringing all of this data in to Excel, because there’s not enough RAM on earth for that to work. Instead I thought it would be easier […]
I recently came across the need to watch my disk space while running a slow program to make sure I didn’t run out. If I did, the command would fail silently and I’d have to start over again. This can easily be done with this short snippet: The important part here is disk1s5, which is […]
In my forever attempt to learn and understand Gutenberg, React, and ES6 (which I am failing at horribly) I sometimes build WordPress plugins just for the learning experience. I don’t have any full intent on releasing these to the WordPress.org Plugin Repository because I honestly don’t feel like dealing with end users and support. I’m […]
Recently I’ve been working with a client who’s site we’re going to soon be migrating. To help with any downtime, we’ve been looking at reducing their database size, which is something around 50-60 gigabytes. After looking through the database, one easy win would be to purge as many post revisions as possible, since their wp_posts […]
This past Monday marked my five year anniversary at Automattic, working for WordPress VIP. It seems forever ago, but at 9:59AM on February 11, 2015 I emailed jobs@automattic.com with my resume built as a child theme to twentyfifteen. Somehow I must have tricked them because 22 days later (which is pretty fast for a reply […]
HyperDock, a macOS tool that provides windows previews like modern versions of Windows, seems to have problems on macOS Catalina for me. At random times, it will stop working and I need to go to System Preferences and disable and re-enable it; sometimes many times a day. I’ve tried contacting the author and so far […]
With Wisps, you can have code snippets similar to Gist, Pastebin, or similar code sharing sites. Using the built-in WordPress code editor, you can write snippets to post and share.
During a client onsite last year, I was first introduced to ngrok. Ngrok provides “secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.” The free tier of ngrok provides temporary, random subdomains to use. This is fine most of the time, but kind of causes problems for things like Jetpack that require persistent domain names for connecting. While I […]
If you google debugging WordPress hooks you’ll find a lot of information. About 1,180,000 results Let’s add another one. WordPress hooks are powerful, but also complex under the hood. There’s plenty of topics I could talk about here, but right now I’m only going to talk about speed. How long does it take for a […]